[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14942]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            MORNING BUSINESS


                           Order of Business

  Mr. DASCHLE. Madam President, let me thank the distinguished ranking 
member and the chairman for their excellent work in getting the Senate 
to this point. I appreciate very much Senator Lugar's interest in 
pursuing this amendment. We will have a good debate on it. We don't 
know how long the debate will last, but we will certainly leave it to 
him to make some decision in that regard tomorrow morning.
  Tomorrow is Tuesday. We have 4 days within which to do a tremendous 
amount of work. I ask the cooperation of all of our colleagues. We need 
to finish this bill, and that will entail, of course, working through 
some very difficult questions not only with regard to the level of 
funding but also perhaps the dairy issue and other questions about 
which I know Senators are concerned. We also have to finish the 
Transportation bill, and of course, the Export Administration Act 
expires in August. The distinguished Presiding Officer addressed that 
point last week. We would like to do HUD-VA. There is a lot to be done.
  Tomorrow night our Republican colleagues have an event and we will 
attempt to accommodate that event tomorrow night. I appreciate very 
much the minority leader's cooperation in allowing us to move to the 
bill as quickly as we have. That will at least accelerate the 
opportunity for debate and hopefully allow us to address some of these 
questions as quickly as possible. It will be a busy week.
  I will say now, so there is no surprise if we are not finished at 
least with the Export Administration Act, the Transportation bill and 
the Agriculture supplemental bill by Friday, we will need the weekend 
and we will need additional days. That is an unfortunate but certainly 
accurate statement. I am hopeful that will not be necessary, but I want 
Senators who have traveling plans to take that into account because 
this work must be done. I thank all of my colleagues.
  I yield the floor, and I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. DURBIN. I seek recognition in morning business for 10 minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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